Letter from Governour Penn to Richard Lee

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Philadelphia, September 26, 1774.

SIR: In consequence of letters lately received from England I have made publick notification of the Provincial boundary lines run by Messrs˙ Dixon and Mason, between this Province and the Lower Counties on Delaware and Maryland. The jurisdiction of this Province will be exercised accordingly up to those lines; and, although your Government has not thought itself at liberty to concur in that most just, reasonable, and necessary measure, for want of proper instructions, I am persuaded it will not give an opposition which can serve no purpose but to disturb the publick peace.

I have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient, and most humble servant,

JOHN PENN.

The Honourable Richard Lee, Esquire.